I want to formally Congratulate all of you reading this article because you are ALIVE to see another year— an important year in the advancement of the INFORMATION AGE.
2017 brought with it an enormous amount of opportunities that could bring personal and national progress and transformation but ONLY THOSE WHO HAVE RAN AHEAD OF TIME CAN SEIZE THE OPPORTUNITIES 2017 BROUGHT. I will like to share a story that is familiar to all Christians—if you not a Christian, just read on because the story contains AMAZING lessons.
JESUS entered JERICHO and he made his way through the town. THE CROWD was EXCITED as they followed JESUS AND HIS DISCIPLES. Some of them discussed the miracles he had done in other towns and only wished if JESUS could perform some here so they could see it live. Others just criticized his ministry and just followed to see what he would do in JERICHO.
A certain YOUNG RICH MAN named ZACCHAEUS, who was the CHIEF TAX COLLECTOR IN THE REGION, tried to SEE JESUS but he just couldn’t because he was too short to see over the crowd and after series of trial, he gave up on the OLD STRATEGY and tried to THINK and within a short time, A WIND OF IDEA blew into his MIND.
He decided to RUN AHEAD OF TIME and CLIMBED A SYCAMORE-FIG TREE BESIDE THE ROAD, for JESUS was going to pass that way. When JESUS got to the tree area, HE LOOKED UP AT ZACCHAEUS AND CALLED “ZACCHAEUS, QUICKLY COME DOWN! I MUST BE A GUEST IN YOUR HOUSE TODAY”… (this story was taken from LK.1:1-6).
That was so unfair… LIFE IS UNFAIR TO THOSE WHO ARE FAIR AND IT’S FAIR TO THOSE WHO ARE UNFAIR—those with the UNFAIR ADVANTAGE. If you can read the above story with an open mind, it will change your thinking about 2017. The above article contains so many insights but I will just pick One to deliberate on.
We all are in search for OPPORTUNITIES. At the sight of any possible opportunity, great crowd flow in the direction of the opportunity but we end up ignored by it and we complain of the unfairness of life but we forget that opportunities gives attention to the PREPARED.
JESUS— which could be seen as an OPPORTUNITY— came into a city and the crowd followed him but none caught his attention but a notorious sinner did. What really did this notorious sinner do? HE SIMPLY RAN AHEAD OF TIME, HE SAW THE FUTURE, RAN INTO IT AND POSITIONED HIMSELF WHERE ALL THE FUTURE OPPORTUNITY WILL MEET HIM… this is a whole article that will be posted at my blog soonest…Am not surprised the wealth of the nations are in the hands of sinners because they are put on attitude of ZACCHAEUS.
2017 is here and we have started running with it as it goes round TIME. How many of us have ran ahead of time and found our Sycamore tree to sit and wait for THE OPPORTUNITY.
IT’S TIME TO RUN INTO THE FUTURE LIKE NOAH, ZACCHAEUS, BILL GATES… HAPPY NEW YEAR.
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